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The docs you are reading are ancient. Very few use dselect for anything at all. apt-get dist-upgrade will bring your system up-to-date with the distribution you have in your sources.list file. That said, there is a benefit to using dselect's cousin aptitude (or dselect if you're particularly masochistic - it doesn't really matter). Packages can suggest other packages that aren't really dependencies but that the user probably wants. dselect and aptitude will usually mark thouse packages for installation (I believe it's configurable) and all in all you'll get a more complete system. You'll also get a lot of stuff you have no clue about and didn't ask for - it's your tradeoff to make. Functionally speaking there is no disadvantage to dist-upgrade because you can always apt-get something that's missing. That's been my experience anyway, and I upgraded from testing to unstable just a couple of weeks ago, using dist-upgrade. Hans * Andrew Jorgensen [Fri, 14 Mar 2003 at 09:42 -0700] <quote> > I read that apt-get dist-upgrade is the wrong way to upgrade to testing= =20 > or unstable, but I'm not clear on what the right way to do it is. The=20 > docs said something about dselect. >=20 > What is the right way to upgrade debian? >=20 > Hans Fugal wrote: > >I can't help any more than the docs with installing on a partition > >rather than the mbr, but I can testify that you don't need to do much to > >keep booting with grub when you change kernels. And that's the only > >thing that would make a difference in the upgrade from testing to > >unstable.=20 > > > >(although, if a new version of grub comes out you won't be actually > >using it unless you run update-grub or grub-install again) > > > >Hans > > > >* Glen Wagley [Thu, 13 Mar 2003 at 22:44 -0700] > ><quote> > > > >>After many meetings with Art Moore, lots of soda, and a few laughs, I > >>decided to install Debian. Ok, I'm kidding but I did finally install > >>Debian. I went with the stable release just to get started. I'm having > >>to dual-boot this machine for certain spouse-related reasons. Now that > >>I have Debian, I need Grub installed. I just ran apt-get install grub > >>and got it but I haven't configured it. I would like to install grub on > >>the first sector where I have debian. I guess I don't understand the > >>grub docs well enough to see how to do this. The partition is > >>/dev/hda6. What do I need to do? Also, after I get grub working, do I > >>need to go back and tweak anything with grub when I apt-get dist-upgrade > >>to unstable? > >>-Glen > >> > >> > >> > >>____________________ > >>BYU Unix Users Group=20 > >>http://uug.byu.edu/=20 > >>___________________________________________________________________ > >>List Info: http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list > > > ></quote> > > >=20 >=20 > ____________________ > BYU Unix Users Group=20 > http://uug.byu.edu/=20 > ___________________________________________________________________ > List Info: http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list </quote> --=20 Hans Fugal | De gustibus non disputandum est. http://hans.fugal.net/ | Debian, vim, mutt, ruby, text, gpg http://gdmxml.fugal.net/ | WindowMaker, gaim, UTF-8, RISC, JS Bach --------------------------------------------------------------------- GnuPG Fingerprint: 6940 87C5 6610 567F 1E95 CB5E FC98 E8CD E0AA D460 --sHrvAb52M6C8blB9 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+cglE/JjozeCq1GARAqyPAKCHsgg/8Pb16chD/tGfUupjd6jbIwCg2yzp YVRf18yjh1PDJuHEcxALbQM= =wng7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --sHrvAb52M6C8blB9-- ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
